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• Person Found Dead Near Sacramento City Hall, 2nd In Less Than A Week

  25-01-2017 22:47
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Authorities confirm that a second person was found dead outside of Sacramento City Hall.
  The discovery was made Wednesday morning near I and 9th streets. Sacramento police say the death is not suspicious.
  Last week, as storm after storm hit Northern California, a homeless man was found dead on the City Hall steps. City leaders are continuing to try and find ways to make sure Sacramento’s homeless population is safe.
  Police say the person found dead on Wednesday&n
  
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• Officers In Standoff With Man In Del Paso Heights Area Home

  25-01-2017 20:38
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Police have surrounded the home of a man who was reportedly threatening family members.
  The scene is along the 1700 block of Eldridge Avenue.
  Sacramento police say they received a call around 9:45 a.m. about a family disturbance inside of a home. The man was reportedly behaving erratically.SWAT Unit gathering at standoff in DelPasoHeights @CBSSacramento @GoodDaySac pic.twitter.com/8JTHI21Bfz
  — David Grashoff (@CameraGuyDave1) January 25, 2017
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• Sacramento Mayor Steinberg Gives His First State Of Downtown Address

  25-01-2017 20:00
  
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  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – The latest on Mayor Darrell Steinberg’s State of Downtown address:
  11 a.m.
  Darrell Steinberg praised the new Golden 1 Center for bringing a more vibrant culture to downtown, but he said it’s not enough.
  Local leaders also talked about how the city isn’t playing up its riverfront. Other leaders are also concerned about the need for a better public transit connection around Downtown.19th Annual State of Downtown unde
  
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• Arrest Made In 1982 Murder Of Vacaville Teen

  25-01-2017 17:05
  
  VACAVILLE (CBS13) – Detectives have made an arrest in the cold case murder of a Vacaville teenager.
  Back in 1982, De Anna Lynn Johnson went to a party but never came home. Her body was later found within walking distance of her home. She was 14-years-old.
  According to the Vacaville Reporter, the case went cold until 2001 when a man was arrested for the killing of a Butte County resident.
  In recent years, more and more evidence has pointed at that man – 51-year-old Marvin Ray Markle &
  
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• Sacramento Mayor Steinberg To Give His First State Of Downtown Address

  25-01-2017 15:30
  
  SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Darrell Steinberg is set to give his first State of Downtown address as Sacramento’s new mayor.
  More than 700 business executives, local leaders and emerging professionals will convene at Memorial Auditorium Wednesday morning to discuss the year’s achievements.19th Annual State of Downtown underway in Sacramento this morning @CBSSacramento pic.twitter.com/rBg7Tz2HuZ
  — Angela Musallam (@AngelaNews) January 25, 2017
  The Downtown Partnership will preview
  
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• California governor defiant in face of Trump agenda

  25-01-2017 15:02
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown forcefully defended California’s efforts to curb global warming, protect immigrants and expand health care, vowing in his State of the State address Tuesday to fight the Trump administration if it tries to roll back the state’s accomplishments.
  “California is not turning back. Not now, not ever,” he declared.
  The Democratic governor of the nation’s most populous state has helped put California in the vanguard of the
  
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• Appeals court to decide future of California carbon auctions

  25-01-2017 14:47
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Businesses looking to invalidate California’s fee for carbon pollution took their arguments to a state appeals court Tuesday in a case that could determine the future of one of California’s signature efforts to combat climate change.
  With a central piece of Gov. Jerry Brown’s legacy on the line, lawyers for the state and for environmental advocacy groups defended a program that has been closely watched around the world as a potential model for co
  
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• Sacramento Brewery Pummeled On Social Media After Women’s March Post By Owner

  25-01-2017 09:11
  
  EAST SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — An East Sacramento beer-maker is now facing threats of a boycott over his politics.
  The 12 Rounds Brewing Company became the target of backlash after the owner controversial post on his personal Facebook page.
  In that post that sparked the uproar, owner Daniel Murphy wrote: “I am disgusted at all the people and politicians that supported this anti-trump event…time to vote all these pieces of garbage out of office.”
  The post refers to the Women&r
  
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• Voters To Decide Future Of Legal Marijuana Cultivation In Calaveras County

  25-01-2017 09:09
  
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  CALAVERAS (CBS13) – The Calaveras County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to let the voters decide if legal marijuana cultivation should remain or be banned.
  A debate is brewing over money, drugs, and the law.
  In the rolling hills of Calaveras County, cannabis is king. But the reign may be short-lived depending on what the people decide.
  ALSO READ: Pioneer Cabin Tree Falls In Calaveras County During Storm
  Cannabis cultivation was made legal in the
  
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• Calaveras County Considers Banning Marijuana Cultivation

  25-01-2017 09:09
  CALAVERAS (CBS13) In the rolling hills of Calaveras County, cannabis is king. The reign may be short lived depending on what the people decide.
  Cannabis cultivation has been legal in the county since May. Since that time, people behind a petition gathered enough signatures to ban marijuana that the Board had to make a decision—accept the results of the petition, or kick it back to the voters to decide.
  The board unanimously voted on Tuesday to let the people make up their minds on the mari
  
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• Accidental Explosion Kills Squaw Valley Ski Patroller

  25-01-2017 09:03
  
  SQUAW VALLEY (CBS13) — The majestic mountain is normally bustling with skiers, instead the lifts were stalled, and workers sent home to mourn the loss of a loved one.
  “All I can tell you is it didn’t feel right to operate the ski resort given the circumstances,” said Andy Wirth, President of Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows.
  Officials say Joe Zuiches was running avalanche patrol on the Gold Coast Ridge in Squaw Valley, a place he knew well. But something went tragically wrong
  
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• Soggy January Hasn’t Solved California’s Groundwater Problems In Drought

  25-01-2017 02:37
  
  FRESNO, Calif. (AP) – Much of California has gone from withered to water-logged this winter but the state’s top water regulator is not ready to lift emergency conservation measures enacted during the height of the state’s drought.
  “It makes the most sense to continue steady as she goes,” State Water Resources Control Board chairwoman Felicia Marcus told The Associated Press after the latest in a series of storms brought more snow to the mountains and record-breaking
  
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• Tracy Teen Not Found In Car Recovered From Alameda Creek

  25-01-2017 00:49
  
  FREMONT, Calif. (AP) – Crews have towed the car of a missing woman out of a swollen creek in Northern California but the 18-year-old woman’s body was not found inside it.
  Alameda County Sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Ray Kelly says the car was pulled out of Alameda Creek Tuesday, three days after Jayda Jenkins apparently lost control during a rainstorm and plunged into the surging waters.
  Kelly says her seat belt was unfastened and that several windows were broken out.
  Jayda Jenkins&
  
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• Lawyers Want Pimping Charges Against Backpage.com Tossed

  25-01-2017 00:30
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – The operators of Backpage.com pushed for pimping charges to be tossed out for the second time Tuesday, two weeks after the website that prosecutors dubbed an online brothel stopped advertising adult services in the face of a congressional investigation.
  The California attorney general’s office charged Backpage executives Carl Ferrer, Michael Lacey and James Larkin last month with conspiracy to commit pimping and 26 counts of money laundering. Ferrer also is
  
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